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		<title>A Brief Course in Immunology: Lecture 5 Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview Aha!  A shorter lecture today at 42 minutes long.  This talk is on B cell receptors.  One thing that these video makers need to do is to focus on the material rather than following the teacher around.   Yes, the &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/a-brief-course-in-immunology-lecture-5-notes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4243&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Aha!  A shorter lecture today at 42 minutes long.  This talk is on B cell receptors.  One thing that these video makers need to do is to focus on the material rather than following the teacher around.   Yes, the guy is very beautiful but there is no need to be zoomed in on the teacher when we are there for the notes, which are overhead.</p>
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<strong>Details</strong></p>
<p>How can we cover all possible antigens?</p>
<p>Antibody molecules use different molecules to prevent infection.  Antibody level and binding affinity is affected by immunization.  Antibodies have a sort of y shaped topology.</p>
<p>The light chain is on the arms of the &#8220;y&#8221;.  There is a variable region with a hypervariable region.</p>
<p>There are two segments, heavy and light chains.  The light chains have kappa and lambda regions.  There are VDJ or variable, diverse, and joining segments as well.</p>
<p>The total diversity of immunoglobulin is 50 trillion.  T cell variation is 10^18.</p>
<p>There is a primary, secondary and tertiary response.  CDR 1, 2, and 3 are the hypervariable regions.  Binding affinity tends to increase with time.</p>
<p>From a pluripotent stem cell to a pre B cell, to mature B cell, activation, binding, then selection, from there, memory B cell/plasma B cell/anergic B cell/ephophone B cell.    The enzyme AID helps create the mutations critical for diversity.  AID is activation induced cytidine deaminase.</p>
<p>Somatic hypermutation rates.  0.1 error prone polymerases.  .001 high fidelity polmerases.  0.0000001 proofreading errors and 0.00000000001 mismatch repair.  Consequences range from death to cancer to health.<br />
<strong> Review</strong></p>
<p>Biology: evolution, energy, information, systems</p>
<p>Evolution: drift, selection, mutation, migration, inbreeding</p>
<p>n = K liquid (C gas/H – C liquid)</p>
<p>Yagi Antenna – Unidirectional, high gain, 9.07 dBi, spacing, number of elements</p>
<p>E + S = ES = EP = E + P</p>
<p>A index: Long term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>Z index: Short term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>V = IR</p>
<p>Re = pUH/u</p>
<p>2s 6p 10d 14f</p>
<p>Accumulation = Rate In – Rate Out</p>
<p>Germ layers: ectoderm/mesoderm/endoderm/neural crest</p>
<p>Extraembryological layers: Amnion, Yolk Sac, Allantois, Chorion</p>
<p>Types of tissue repair: fibrosis, regeneration</p>
<p>Levels of theory: atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population Muscle: skeletal, smooth, cardiac</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Fibrous eye layer: sclera, cornea</p>
<p>Vascular eye layer: pupil, iris, ciliary body, choroid</p>
<p>Sensory: retina</p>
<p>Interior layers of the eye: retina, choroid, sclera</p>
<p>Brain layers: DAP dia mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater</p>
<p>conjectiva – highly vascular, thin layer, mucus membrane</p>
<p>Edge of objects, light intensity and contrast are affected by horizontal and amacrine cells.</p>
<p>Fast pain from myelinated fibers, slow pain from unmyelinated fibers</p>
<p>Cell to Cell Communication from short distance to longest: autocrine, juxtacrine, paracrine, endocrine.</p>
<p>Tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, nervous</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>K = products/reactants</p>
<p>Brain: diencephalon, brainstem, cerebrum, cerebellum</p>
<p>Merkel discs – pressure, light touch</p>
<p>Two cells that improve contrast, edges and light intensity are amacrine and horizontal cells.</p>
<p>Taste buds from cranial nerve 9, 10,7.</p>
<p>Layers of the spinal cord: DAPer Dura mater, Arachnoid mater, and Pia mater.</p>
<p>Brain Waves from fast to slow: alpha, beta, theta, delta</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>Blood: RBCs, WBCs, plasma, platelets</p>
<p>K = Products/Reactants</p>
<p>G = -8T lnK</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Muscle: Smooth, Cardiac, Smooth</p>
<p>S P D F – 2s, 6p, 10d, 14f</p>
<p>Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER) makes proteins</p>
<p>Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (SER) makes lipids</p>
<p>Macromolecules: Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Proteins, Carbohydrates</p>
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		<title>A Brief Course in Immunology: Lecture 4 Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 15:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview Yes, our kosher friend returns today for another lecture.  Keep in mind -  the lecture series is occurring all in a day or two.  Today&#8217;s offering is 58 minutes of joy on antigen presentation to T lymphocytes. I can&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/a-brief-course-in-immunology-lecture-4-notes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4232&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Overview</strong></p>
<p>Yes, our kosher friend returns today for another lecture.  Keep in mind -  the lecture series is occurring all in a day or two.  Today&#8217;s offering is 58 minutes of joy on antigen presentation to T lymphocytes.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t go on without mentioning how fast this guy talks.  He&#8217;s a New York Jew, so he takes auctioneering to a new level.  I seriously think he&#8217;s on some sort of amphetamine.  He&#8217;s talking almost as fast as he can and gets out of breath.  I just read the slides, when the camera person decides to focus on the material instead of the teacher.  This isn&#8217;t the old days when they used chalk &#8211; there is no need to watch the presenter so intently.</p>
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<p><strong>Details</strong></p>
<p>***The teacher is blasting today, as always.  You will not understand everything he says. ***<strong> </strong></p>
<p>MHC 1 bind to CD8.  MHC 2 bind to CH4.  To remember this, 1*8 = 2*4</p>
<p>Homodimers have two same chains.  Heterodimers have two different chains.</p>
<p>Class 1 MHC molecules can present a diverse yet limited number of peptides about 9 amino acids long.</p>
<p>Class 1 MHCs have an alpha chain and beta 2 microglobulin structure.  The peptide size is 9 AAs.  THe peptide must be within the cleft.  The peptide must be tightly bound with a high binding affinity.  The T cell interaction is CD8 + T Cell.</p>
<p>Class 2 MHCs have an alpha chain and beta chain.  They are 15 AAs long.  The ends of the peptide can be dangling outside of the cleft, like a hotdog from a bun.  The binding affinity is very loose, and the T cell interaction is CD4  + T cell.</p>
<p>Cells contain two intracellular compartments: The vesicle which DOES communicate with the extracellular fluid and the cytosol which does not.</p>
<p>From In to Out: Nucleolus, nucleus, SER, RER, GA, transport vesicle, permeable membrane.</p>
<p>Peptides presented by MHC class 1 molecules are derived from intracellular proteins.</p>
<p>The phagolysosome generates different sized peptides from proteins.  Like slicing bread.</p>
<p>With MHC 1, the peptide source is endogenous, peptide loading is ER, antigen derived peprides are used for folding, CD8 + T cell, death.</p>
<p>With MHC 2, exogenous, endosome, CLIP peptide, CD4 + T cell, action.</p>
<p>Today we can quantify antigen specific T cells.</p>
<p>Toxic shock syndrome.  Superantigens binds to MHC and T cell receptor, like superglue.  A cytokine storm.  Autoimmune destruction.  The rely tampon allowed bacteria to grow very efficiently.</p>
<p>By the way, if the class has no questions &#8211; they don&#8217;t understand.  You&#8217;re going to fast.  All teachers should know this.  It means you&#8217;ve blasted away and the students are just catching up.</p>
<p><strong>Review</strong></p>
<p>Biology: evolution, energy, information, systems</p>
<p>Evolution: drift, selection, mutation, migration, inbreeding</p>
<p>n = K liquid (C gas/H – C liquid)</p>
<p>Yagi Antenna – Unidirectional, high gain, 9.07 dBi, spacing, number of elements</p>
<p>E + S = ES = EP = E + P</p>
<p>A index: Long term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>Z index: Short term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>V = IR</p>
<p>Re = pUH/u</p>
<p>2s 6p 10d 14f</p>
<p>Accumulation = Rate In – Rate Out</p>
<p>Germ layers: ectoderm/mesoderm/endoderm/neural crest</p>
<p>Extraembryological layers: Amnion, Yolk Sac, Allantois, Chorion</p>
<p>Types of tissue repair: fibrosis, regeneration</p>
<p>Levels of theory: atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population Muscle: skeletal, smooth, cardiac</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Fibrous eye layer: sclera, cornea</p>
<p>Vascular eye layer: pupil, iris, ciliary body, choroid</p>
<p>Sensory: retina</p>
<p>Interior layers of the eye: retina, choroid, sclera</p>
<p>Brain layers: DAP dia mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater</p>
<p>conjectiva – highly vascular, thin layer, mucus membrane</p>
<p>Edge of objects, light intensity and contrast are affected by horizontal and amacrine cells.</p>
<p>Fast pain from myelinated fibers, slow pain from unmyelinated fibers</p>
<p>Cell to Cell Communication from short distance to longest: autocrine, juxtacrine, paracrine, endocrine.</p>
<p>Tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, nervous</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>K = products/reactants</p>
<p>Brain: diencephalon, brainstem, cerebrum, cerebellum</p>
<p>Merkel discs – pressure, light touch</p>
<p>Two cells that improve contrast, edges and light intensity are amacrine and horizontal cells.</p>
<p>Taste buds from cranial nerve 9, 10,7.</p>
<p>Layers of the spinal cord: DAPer Dura mater, Arachnoid mater, and Pia mater.</p>
<p>Brain Waves from fast to slow: alpha, beta, theta, delta</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>Blood: RBCs, WBCs, plasma, platelets</p>
<p>K = Products/Reactants</p>
<p>G = -8T lnK</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Muscle: Smooth, Cardiac, Smooth</p>
<p>S P D F – 2s, 6p, 10d, 14f</p>
<p>Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER) makes proteins</p>
<p>Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (SER) makes lipids</p>
<p>Macromolecules: Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Proteins, Carbohydrates</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 02:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was tutoring an eight year old and he watched and learned the material in this short video.  It is only nine minutes long.  Of all of the wasteful things you did with your day, certainly you can spare &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/if-an-eight-year-old-can-do-it-so-can-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4230&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I was tutoring an eight year old and he watched and learned the material in this short video.  It is only nine minutes long.  Of all of the wasteful things you did with your day, certainly you can spare nine minutes to educate yourself and handle the same workload as an eight year old.  Watch this short video on Biology and leave a comment when you&#8217;re done to let us know that you completed it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibhnP5suqK8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibhnP5suqK8</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, do I love this movie.  I&#8217;ve &#8220;watched&#8221; it in another window several times by now.  This movie will re-introduce modern viewers to the oldest game in the book, the con game. This is so important.  We like to think &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/a-review-of-house-of-games/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4225&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boy, do I love this movie.  I&#8217;ve &#8220;watched&#8221; it in another window several times by now.  This movie will re-introduce modern viewers to the oldest game in the book, the con game.</p>
<p>This is so important.  We like to think that we are above it all today &#8211; facebook, computers, magical cell phone convince us that we live in a more enlightened age.  The hustle, flim flam artists and con men are all in the past.  Buzzt!  Wrong!</p>
<p>Facebook just released their IPO.  The IPO hustle works like this.  A publicity company pumps the stock hard.  The public salivates at the thought of getting a piece of the action.  You can&#8217;t con an honest, logical man; the public is dripping with emotion, dreaming about those castles in the sky, all the money they&#8217;re going to make.  The insiders make their money selling stock to the public.  So the price jumps briefly, the insiders sell near the top, then when it cools off, Joe Public&#8217;s holding the bag.  Almost the entire stock market is like this in some way.  I prefer casinos - there at least, one can calculate odds with some confidence.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.absolutewealth.com/a-facebook-world/">http://www.absolutewealth.com/a-facebook-world/</a></p>
<p>This movie is about a female psychologist who merely observes life.  She&#8217;s professional but is very pent up.  She&#8217;s got a secret desire to become more involved in her own life, to experience some danger.  After one patient calls her on it, she decides to help him out by renegotiating a marker.  She&#8217;s very curious and can&#8217;t stay away.  Eventually, she becomes a mark too.  You&#8217;ll love it.  It&#8217;s free but costs 102 minutes of your time:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gsmovies.com/movie.php?id=7430">http://www.gsmovies.com/movie.php?id=7430</a></p>
<p>The hustle in the beginning is good.  She walks into a poolroom, asking for Mike.  Mike comes in, blustering.  She&#8217;s the noob in the place, so she&#8217;s the mark.  On pretense, he briefly enters the card game again, giving a signal.  Then he asks her to help him read a guy&#8217;s tells.  But they lied to her, and because she&#8217;s invested and Mike lost money, she writes a check for 6 grand to cover the debt.</p>
<p>This movie is from 1987, the last decade of white culture.  Maybe one negro in the whole damn movie.  If you pay attention to detail, perhaps even watching it several times, you will profit.  Oftentimes it takes watching a movie 10 times or so to really absorb everything, as I have done with this and other films.  If you have an interest in human nature and dealing with people, this is highly recommended.</p>
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		<title>A Brief Course in Immunology: Lecture 3 Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 15:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview This teacher is a New York Jew.  Wow, he even wears one of those little hats that don&#8217;t fit.  This is a 50 minute lecture on antigen recognition.  He is playing the auctioneer big time.  You will not catch &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/a-brief-course-in-immunology-lecture-3-notes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4221&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Overview</strong></p>
<p>This teacher is a New York Jew.  Wow, he even wears one of those little hats that don&#8217;t fit.  This is a 50 minute lecture on antigen recognition.  He is playing the auctioneer big time.  You will not catch everything he says, I guarantee it.  It turns out that this class is occuring all in one or two days, which little mini breaks between segments.  They aren&#8217;t learning everything as well.  Just do what you can.</p>
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<p><strong>Details</strong></p>
<p>How do B and T cells see antigens?</p>
<p>When you don&#8217;t know something, you trivialize it.  Monocytes and macrophages are critical to the immune process.  Phagocytosis by macrophages, macrophages as the garbage trucks of the cell, picking up garbage.  Afterward is a sort of burping process.</p>
<p>Macrophages are a key cell in B/T cell immunition.  Androgen presenting cell from macrophages is like going from garbage men to sanitation engineers.</p>
<p>The two types of antigen presenting cells are macrophages and dentritic cells.</p>
<p>Macrophages engage in phagocytosis and activate bacterial mechanisms.  Dendritic cells assist in antigen uptake in peripheral sites.</p>
<p>The phagocytic cell can eat the antigen.  It needs activation from T cells.</p>
<p>No infection, cells are not activated.  The tradeoff is mobilization speed versus energy expenditure.</p>
<p>An infected macrophage is recognized by a T cell</p>
<p>A mouse needs to be protected from TB.  You can transfer cells to save its life.  Activated monocytes, T cells or B cells?</p>
<p>T cells are more important than B cells.</p>
<p>B and T cells use differsent antigen specific receptors.</p>
<p>You cannot have a gene for every receptor.</p>
<p>The second time an antigen is seen, there is an amplified respon</p>
<p>MHC class 1 has 1 foot and MCH class 2 has two feet.</p>
<p>CD4 is a helper cell, CD8 is a terminator cell.</p>
<p>Some T cells kill and others assist.</p>
<p><strong>Review</strong></p>
<p>n = K liquid (C gas/H – C liquid)</p>
<p>Yagi Antenna – Unidirectional, high gain, 9.07 dBi, spacing, number of elements</p>
<p>E + S = ES = EP = E + P</p>
<p>A index: Long term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>Z index: Short term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>V = IR</p>
<p>Re = pUH/u</p>
<p>2s 6p 10d 14f</p>
<p>Accumulation = Rate In – Rate Out</p>
<p>Germ layers: ectoderm/mesoderm/endoderm/neural crest</p>
<p>Extraembryological layers: Amnion, Yolk Sac, Allantois, Chorion</p>
<p>Types of tissue repair: fibrosis, regeneration</p>
<p>Levels of theory: atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population Muscle: skeletal, smooth, cardiac</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Fibrous eye layer: sclera, cornea</p>
<p>Vascular eye layer: pupil, iris, ciliary body, choroid</p>
<p>Sensory: retina</p>
<p>Interior layers of the eye: retina, choroid, sclera</p>
<p>Brain layers: DAP dia mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater</p>
<p>conjectiva – highly vascular, thin layer, mucus membrane</p>
<p>Edge of objects, light intensity and contrast are affected by horizontal and amacrine cells.</p>
<p>Fast pain from myelinated fibers, slow pain from unmyelinated fibers</p>
<p>Cell to Cell Communication from short distance to longest: autocrine, juxtacrine, paracrine, endocrine.</p>
<p>Tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, nervous</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>K = products/reactants</p>
<p>Brain: diencephalon, brainstem, cerebrum, cerebellum</p>
<p>Merkel discs – pressure, light touch</p>
<p>Two cells that improve contrast, edges and light intensity are amacrine and horizontal cells.</p>
<p>Taste buds from cranial nerve 9, 10,7.</p>
<p>Layers of the spinal cord: DAPer Dura mater, Arachnoid mater, and Pia mater.</p>
<p>Brain Waves from fast to slow: alpha, beta, theta, delta</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>Blood: RBCs, WBCs, plasma, platelets</p>
<p>K = Products/Reactants</p>
<p>G = -8T lnK</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Muscle: Smooth, Cardiac, Smooth</p>
<p>S P D F – 2s, 6p, 10d, 14f</p>
<p>Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER) makes proteins</p>
<p>Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (SER) makes lipids</p>
<p>Macromolecules: Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Proteins, Carbohydrates</p>
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		<title>A Brief Course in Immunology: Lecture 2 Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview This is some hard material.  Immunology is a jargon driven field, more so than most of biology.  Do what you can, don&#8217;t stress yourself if you do not absorb all the material the first time out. Today is a &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/a-brief-course-in-immunology-lecture-2-notes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4216&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Overview</strong></p>
<p>This is some hard material.  Immunology is a jargon driven field, more so than most of biology.  Do what you can, don&#8217;t stress yourself if you do not absorb all the material the first time out.</p>
<p>Today is a 57 minute lecture which is another overview of the immunology.  The teacher has not chosen an area to specialize in yet.</p>
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<p><strong>Details</strong></p>
<p>Tissue damage can also promote an immune response.  Macrophages in the skin release mediators.</p>
<p><em>The Goal of the Inflammatory Response</em></p>
<p>Prevent establishment<br />
Prevent spread of infection<br />
Recruit effector cells<br />
Alert/Mobilize B and T Cells</p>
<p>Alcohol reduces bacterial load.  B and T cells reside in lymphoid tissues.  Antigen needs to reach the B and T cells in the lymphoid.  Then they need to circulate to the site of circulation.</p>
<p><em>Would you rather give up the innate or adaptive response?</em></p>
<p>Adaptive response is macrophages.  The level of infection of microorganisms versus duration of infection.  Knock out the adaptive response, level of infection plateaus then increases.  If you knock out the innate response, the body loses control of the infection.  Innate is more important.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to get funded, use scare tactics.  Mention bioterrorism, spores in envelopes.  Vaccines take 4 weeks to begin working.  We&#8217;d like to rev up the innate immune response and to active macrophages early.</p>
<p>Skin, guts, lungs, eyes and nose protect us from infection.  Stomach pH.  Cilia beating.</p>
<p>Bacterial derived factors match up with their receptors.  Glucan with the glucan receptor, mannose with the mannose receptor.  LPS as well.  CD 14 reacts with TLR to recognize LP.</p>
<p>TLR - Toll like receptor.  Without toll, fruit flies succumbed to massive fungal infection.  We have homologous receptors.  This was discovered in 1996.</p>
<p>HIV activates macrophages.</p>
<p>Langerhans&#8217; cells provide a link between the innate and adaptive immune system.  There are immature dendritic cells lying in the skin.  Post activation, they migrate to the lymph noes and straport skin derivted anigens.  In the lymph nodes, they become activated dendritic cells and activate antigen specific lymphocytes.  An example of innate immune system activating the adaptive immune system.</p>
<p>C reactive protein indicates infection.</p>
<p><em>How can effector cells be recruited to sites of infection? </em></p>
<p>Local site that is infected requires focused signal expression that can recruit specific cells needed to contain infection</p>
<p>Effector cells need the capacity to recognize that these signals can migrate from the circulatory system to the inflammatory site.</p>
<p>Anything with &#8220;AM&#8221; means adhesion molecule.</p>
<p><strong>Review</strong></p>
<p>n = K liquid (C gas/H – C liquid)</p>
<p>Yagi Antenna – Unidirectional, high gain, 9.07 dBi, spacing, number of elements</p>
<p>E + S = ES = EP = E + P</p>
<p>A index: Long term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>Z index: Short term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>V = IR</p>
<p>Re = pUH/u</p>
<p>2s 6p 10d 14f</p>
<p>Accumulation = Rate In – Rate Out</p>
<p>Germ layers: ectoderm/mesoderm/endoderm/neural crest</p>
<p>Extraembryological layers: Amnion, Yolk Sac, Allantois, Chorion</p>
<p>Types of tissue repair: fibrosis, regeneration</p>
<p>Levels of theory: atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population Muscle: skeletal, smooth, cardiac</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Fibrous eye layer: sclera, cornea</p>
<p>Vascular eye layer: pupil, iris, ciliary body, choroid</p>
<p>Sensory: retina</p>
<p>Interior layers of the eye: retina, choroid, sclera</p>
<p>Brain layers: DAP dia mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater</p>
<p>conjectiva – highly vascular, thin layer, mucus membrane</p>
<p>Edge of objects, light intensity and contrast are affected by horizontal and amacrine cells.</p>
<p>Fast pain from myelinated fibers, slow pain from unmyelinated fibers</p>
<p>Cell to Cell Communication from short distance to longest: autocrine, juxtacrine, paracrine, endocrine.</p>
<p>Tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, nervous</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>K = products/reactants</p>
<p>Brain: diencephalon, brainstem, cerebrum, cerebellum</p>
<p>Merkel discs – pressure, light touch</p>
<p>Two cells that improve contrast, edges and light intensity are amacrine and horizontal cells.</p>
<p>Taste buds from cranial nerve 9, 10,7.</p>
<p>Layers of the spinal cord: DAPer Dura mater, Arachnoid mater, and Pia mater.</p>
<p>Brain Waves from fast to slow: alpha, beta, theta, delta</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>Blood: RBCs, WBCs, plasma, platelets</p>
<p>K = Products/Reactants</p>
<p>G = -8T lnK</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Muscle: Smooth, Cardiac, Smooth</p>
<p>S P D F – 2s, 6p, 10d, 14f</p>
<p>Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER) makes proteins</p>
<p>Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (SER) makes lipids</p>
<p>Macromolecules: Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Proteins, Carbohydrates</p>
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		<title>A Brief Course on Immunology: Lecture 1 Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview This is the first of a 14 day series on immunology.  I&#8217;m going to run this myself and see what happens.  The teacher is an American jew and the class takes place in Durban, ZA.  The lectures range from 1 hour &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/a-brief-course-on-immunology-lecture-1-notes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4204&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>This is the first of a 14 day series on immunology.  I&#8217;m going to run this myself and see what happens.  The teacher is an American jew and the class takes place in Durban, ZA.  The lectures range from 1 hour to 50 minutes long.  This will pass relatively quickly. </p>
<p>You&#8217;ll love it! &#8211; he opens with a story from the talmud.  The audience of this class is an affirmative action person&#8217;s dream &#8211; mostly negros and coloreds.  I saw only a few unmixed whites, all females.</p>
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<p><strong>Details</strong></p>
<p><em>Kill the pathogen but don&#8217;t harm the host</em></p>
<p>This is the essence of immunology.  The rest is particulars.</p>
<p>Bubble boys are born without a functioning immune system.  Air is filtered, food is sterilized.  People with HIV have a similar condition.</p>
<p>Edward Jenner made observations and acted on those observations regarding small pox.  The only host for small pox is humans.  1979 was when small pox was officially eliminated.</p>
<p><em>The Multiple Layer Immune System</em></p>
<p>                                      <strong> Innate       Acquired</strong></p>
<p><strong>Barrier</strong>                            Skin                 Mucosal immunity</p>
<p><strong>Soluble Protein  </strong>         Complement    Antibodies</p>
<p><strong>Cells     </strong>                     Phagocytes            B and T cells</p>
<p><strong>Mediators  </strong>              IL-1, TNF            gamma interferons</p>
<p>Burn patients die from infections.  The skin is the first line of defense. </p>
<p>The function of the immune system includes: distinguish between foreign and self.  Amplify the foreign nature of the invader.  Recruit helps like microphages.  Clear the pathogen.  Prevent Recurrence, prepare for the <em>future</em></p>
<p><em>Immune System Functions</em></p>
<p>Identification<br />
Designation<br />
Recruitment<br />
Elimination<br />
Prevent recurrence</p>
<p>Sensitivity and Specificity of Detection Determines the Effectiveness of Immune Surveillance.</p>
<p><em>Immune System Design</em></p>
<p>Specificity<br />
Diversity<br />
Memory<br />
Demobilization<br />
Distinguish Self from the Other</p>
<p><em>Targets of the Immune System</em></p>
<p>Extracellular Bacteria/Parasites/Fungi &#8211; Pneumonia, Tetanus</p>
<p>Intracellular Bacteria/Parasites &#8211; Tuberculosis</p>
<p>Intracellular Viruses</p>
<p>Extracellular Parasitic Worms &#8211; These can be rather large.</p>
<p>CD is cluster of differentiation.  CD 4 is a helper T cell.  Cells express unique membrane proteins identified by monoclonal antibodies.  The nomenclature is CD protein followed by a number.  Signals are involved with the differentiation of B and T cells.</p>
<p>Histology is microscopic anatomy.  No cytoplasm because it is not activated.  Lymphocytes have large nucleus.  Making antibodies is expensive.  Once lymphocyte is activated, alot of mt, ER, and GA are created</p>
<p>What produces the most protection?</p>
<p>A full infection.  There is more proliferation, the infection lasts longer.  Protection may last your entire life.  An attenuated virus is superior to a dead virus.  There is more exposure from an attenuated virus, when protection may last up to 30 years.  Dead viruses will produce protection for about 15 years.  The jew&#8217;s students here are cowards and won&#8217;t participate; he really has to prod them. </p>
<p>Finally, there are a wide variety of topics that will be covered in future classes.  They were very briefly touched upon here but include:</p>
<p><em>Clonal Selection Hypothesis</em></p>
<p><em>Development of a Secondary Amplified Response</em></p>
<p><em>Always there is a lag phase, a primary response and a secondary response.  </em></p>
<p><em>Screwdrivers with different head but the same handles.  The constant region has to fit in your hand.</em></p>
<p><em>Different Antigen Recognition Molecules Are Used By T Cells or B Cells</em></p>
<p><em>Same job, different ways.</em></p>
<p><em>T cells from the Thymus</em></p>
<p><em>Lymph Node Organization</em></p>
<p><strong>Review</strong></p>
<p>Ah, this is still here.  This is compilation of all our old lectures.  Just something to keep the blood pumping, to keep the material fresh.  If you take two minutes to read through this list, the items will remain clear in your mind.  You&#8217;ve heard of the 10K &#8211; the more times you review, the easier things will become.</p>
<p>n = K liquid (C gas/H – C liquid)</p>
<p>Yagi Antenna – Unidirectional, high gain, 9.07 dBi, spacing, number of elements</p>
<p>E + S = ES = EP = E + P</p>
<p>A index: Long term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>Z index: Short term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>V = IR</p>
<p>Re = pUH/u</p>
<p>2s 6p 10d 14f</p>
<p>Accumulation = Rate In – Rate Out</p>
<p>Germ layers: ectoderm/mesoderm/endoderm/neural crest</p>
<p>Extraembryological layers: Amnion, Yolk Sac, Allantois, Chorion</p>
<p>Types of tissue repair: fibrosis, regeneration</p>
<p>Levels of theory: atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population Muscle: skeletal, smooth, cardiac</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Fibrous eye layer: sclera, cornea</p>
<p>Vascular eye layer: pupil, iris, ciliary body, choroid</p>
<p>Sensory: retina</p>
<p>Interior layers of the eye: retina, choroid, sclera</p>
<p>Brain layers: DAP dia mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater</p>
<p>conjectiva – highly vascular, thin layer, mucus membrane</p>
<p>Edge of objects, light intensity and contrast are affected by horizontal and amacrine cells.</p>
<p>Fast pain from myleinated fibers, slow pain from unmylienated fibers</p>
<p>Cell to Cell Communication from short distance to longest: autocrine, juxtacrine, paracrine, endocrine.</p>
<p>Tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, nervous</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>K = products/reactants</p>
<p>Brain: diencephalon, brainstem, cerebrum, cerebellum</p>
<p>Merkel discs – pressure, light touch</p>
<p>Two cells that improve contrast, edges and light intensity are amacrine and horizontal cells.</p>
<p>Taste buds from cranial nerve 9, 10,7.</p>
<p>Layers of the spinal cord: DAPer Dura mater, Arachnoid mater, and Pia mater.</p>
<p>Brain Waves from fast to slow: alpha, beta, theta, delta</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>Blood: RBCs, WBCs, plasma, platelets</p>
<p>K = Products/Reactants</p>
<p>G = -8T lnK</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Muscle: Smooth, Cardiac, Smooth</p>
<p>S P D F – 2s, 6p, 10d, 14f</p>
<p>Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER) makes proteins</p>
<p>Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (SER) makes lipids</p>
<p>Macromolecules: Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Proteins, Carbohydrates</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview Today is a 56 minute lecture, the final lecture of Chance&#8217;s academic career.  He&#8217;s been teaching this class for 30 years and knew the guy who screwed up that Mars orbiter with the CGS unit conversion.  After retirement, Chance &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/introduction-to-chemical-engineering-lecture-23-notes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4194&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Today is a 56 minute lecture, the final lecture of Chance&#8217;s academic career.  He&#8217;s been teaching this class for 30 years and knew the guy who screwed up that Mars orbiter with the CGS unit conversion.  After retirement, Chance will visit Tanzania, ski, and continue working against Big Tobacco.</p>
<p>This lecture is about drug delivery, particularly the delivery of nicotine.  This is THE premier source of information on cigarettes.</p>
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<p><strong>Details</strong></p>
<p>Mike Cerice  was a lawyer working against big tobacco.  He asked for Chance&#8217;s help about 18 years ago.  Cerice and Chance had worked together before on intrauterine birth control devices.  In particular, copper 7.  After being litigated out of existence in the US, they were shipped to Oz and sold there, until they were stopped again.</p>
<p>Among the biggest users of ammonia are tobacco companies.  Especially diammonium phosphate and urea.  Ammonia helps increase nicotine bioavailability, changing its chemical form and &#8220;freebasing&#8221; it.</p>
<p>Cellulose acetate is the filter.  In the filter, there are either many moles with one band, or  many bands with one hole like Marlboro had.  Fresh air dilutes the nicotine.  In your mouth, the hole is covered.  Breathe deeper, hold it longer, more tar/nicotine , leading to adenocarcinomas which are deep lung cancers.  People who smoke to get the hit they want.</p>
<p>Nobody who worked for the tobacco  companies could testify in the case.</p>
<p>Lebulenic acid &#8211; nicotine receptor accelerator.</p>
<p>Nicotine on its own tastes like foul, rotten rubber.</p>
<p>Making decaffeinated coffee  is just like making denicotinized tobacco.  That stuff didn&#8217;t sell so well &#8211; coffee people are in the caffeine business and cigarette guys are in the nicotine business.</p>
<p>No one bought denicotinized tobacco.  They tested it in South Dakota, one of the whitest and most trusting areas of the nation.  They were in a squeeze play, they had to keep the amount of nicotine above the pharmacological threshold.</p>
<p>With drug delivery, you need: a platform, reservoir, portal, a driving energy source and a rate controller.  The energy source is heat and sucking.  The rate controller is the person.</p>
<p>Tobaccoville in Iowa makes 15K cigarettes per minute.  They have 100 cigarette making machines, each making 1.5K per minute.  An IR laser makes the holes in the filter.</p>
<p>So the state of Minnesota won the lawsuit in 1998 for 6.6 billion.  Each year there are 5 million preventable deaths worldwide.  The PM of Norway approached Chance for help in their own case.</p>
<p>Chance worked in the formulation documents vault.  There was copper mesh all around, acting as a Faraday cage, electrically isolating it.  There were two doors, each with a guard, 55 full file cabinets.  This was like a single area having the recipe for Coke, Pepsi, Jolt and Dr Pepper.</p>
<p>Neutral molecules pass through biological membranes fairly easily.  That&#8217;s why the ammonia is used &#8211; to remove charge and &#8220;freebase&#8221; the nicotine.  This dramatically increases bioavailability.  This revolution in 1965 was responsible for Marlboro replacing Winstron Salem as the most popular.  It surely didn&#8217;t happen because of the cowboy.</p>
<p>The tobacco plants has huge leaves, nicotine was an evolved defense and makes a fantastic insecticide.  Huge leaves to be desiccated, LD 50 of 40 milligrams, eat a pack of cigarettes, die, very toxic, almost as bad as plutonium.</p>
<p>Cigars, waterpipes, cloves do not offer as much nicotine.</p>
<p>The cigarette machine was made by Duke of Duke University.</p>
<p>Tar/nicotine is what&#8217;s left after a cigarette is dried.</p>
<p>Marlboro boxes look like badges.  Marlboro Light looks like hospitals.  The effect of color.</p>
<p><strong>Review</strong></p>
<p>n = K liquid (C gas/H – C liquid)</p>
<p>Yagi Antenna – Unidirectional, high gain, 9.07 dBi, spacing, number of elements</p>
<p>E + S = ES = EP = E + P</p>
<p>A index: Long term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>Z index: Short term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>V = IR</p>
<p>Re = pUH/u</p>
<p>2s 6p 10d 14f</p>
<p>Accumulation = Rate In – Rate Out</p>
<p>Germ layers: ectoderm/mesoderm/endoderm/neural crest</p>
<p>Extraembryological layers: Amnion, Yolk Sac, Allantois, Chorion</p>
<p>Types of tissue repair: fibrosis, regeneration</p>
<p>Levels of theory: atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population Muscle: skeletal, smooth, cardiac</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Fibrous eye layer: sclera, cornea</p>
<p>Vascular eye layer: pupil, iris, ciliary body, choroid</p>
<p>Sensory: retina</p>
<p>Interior layers of the eye: retina, choroid, sclera</p>
<p>Brain layers: DAP dia mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater</p>
<p>conjectiva – highly vascular, thin layer, mucus membrane</p>
<p>Edge of objects, light intensity and contrast are affected by horizonal and amacrine cells.</p>
<p>Fast pain from myleinated fibers, slow pain from unmylienated fibers</p>
<p>Cell to Cell Communication from short distance to longest: autocrine, juxtacrine, paracrine, endocrine.</p>
<p>Tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, nervous</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>K = products/reactants</p>
<p>Brain: diencephalon, brainstem, cerebrum, cerebellum</p>
<p>Merkel discs – pressure, light touch</p>
<p>Two cells that improve contrast, edges and light intensity are amacrine and horizontal cells.</p>
<p>Taste buds from cranial nerve 9, 10,7.</p>
<p>Layers of the spinal cord: DAPer Dura mater, Arachnoid mater, and Pia mater.</p>
<p>Brain Waves from fast to slow: alpha, beta, theta, delta</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>Blood: RBCs, WBCs, plasma, platelets</p>
<p>K = Products/Reactants</p>
<p>G = -8T lnK</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Muscle: Smooth, Cardiac, Smooth</p>
<p>S P D F – 2s, 6p, 10d, 14f</p>
<p>Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER) makes proteins</p>
<p>Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (SER) makes lipids</p>
<p>Macromolecules: Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Proteins, Carbohydrates</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have hundreds of daily readers on this site. We have few comments. That is no accident. We only clear an extremely few comments for publication. We are not an open forum. There are plenty of good sites who fill &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/what-can-be-done/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4197&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have hundreds of daily readers on this site.  We have few comments.  That is no accident.  We only clear an extremely few comments for publication.  We are not an open forum.  There are plenty of good sites who fill that role.  We keep this site uncluttered with argument and unproductive idle chatter for the people who are interested to form a cohesive study group.</p>
<p>One reader asked me either to meet with or lead her group, I&#8217;m not sure which.  What I told her is worth repeating to our general readership.  Among her complaints were that she is distraught by the state of our race, that we lack leadership, cannot organize picnics and other events and so cannot seem to accomplish greater goals.  I will not reprint her comments, but you can gather the general idea from my response.  What I told her is applicable to anyone who wants to become active, but doesn&#8217;t know what to do.  I have included a diverse set of options, even listing strategies and groups with which I have strong disagreements.</p>
<p>In the words of the Italian Fascists &#8220;Believe, Obey, Fight!&#8221;</p>
<p>My comments to the reader follow:</p>
<p>Leaders will do you no good if you will not do as they say.  We have shown you the way.  You must take our classes.  In that way our movement will eventually have the money to do whatever we want.  If you refuse to work hard I don&#8217;t know what else to tell you.  I&#8217;m not against you.  However I don&#8217;t have time to spend countless hours hanging around and talking with people who will not do the part we expect of them.  If you have another way I would encourage you to follow your alternative path.</p>
<p>Also I know what we are doing.  We don&#8217;t need alternative views, opinions, etc.  Either you agree 100% with us and our views and are going to help or you should start your own alternative organization.</p>
<p>It is not true that you cannot have a picnic.  cveas.org has large gatherings all the time.  So if you want to hang around with other Whites you should join them and attend their events.</p>
<p>If you want to help, you must:</p>
<p>1.) Take our classes, abandon your foolish beliefs and conform to ours.</p>
<p>2.) If you will not do #1, move to Kalispell. There you will find many Whites who believe as you do and can form a strong community, one worth defending.</p>
<p>3.) If you will not do #1 or #2 then move to the community set up by cveas.org and then you can live among people who believe like you and can try to help them build some kind of community worth defending.</p>
<p>4.)  If you will not do #1, #2, or #3 Move to the xian community in Missouri set up by Pastor Dan Gayman and obey him.</p>
<p>5.) If you will not do #1-#4 Join the NSM and do what they say.  Volunteer for every project that comes up.</p>
<p>6.) If you will not do #1-#5 Start your own group and see what you can achieve.</p>
<p>I listed them in order #1 being the most effective in my opinion.</p>
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		<title>Introduction to Chemical Engineering: Lecture 22 Notes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview Only one lecture left!  Today is a 51 minute lecture on the environment again.  Chance talks about his work on a superfund project and his experiences as a legal consultant.  Details 18 years ago Chance got a phone call &#8230; <a href="http://wnthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/introduction-to-chemical-engineering-lecture-22-notes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wnthinktank.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26673729&#038;post=4180&#038;subd=wnthinktank&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Overview</strong></p>
<p>Only one lecture left!  Today is a 51 minute lecture on the environment again.  Chance talks about his work on a superfund project and his experiences as a legal consultant. </p>
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<p><strong>Details</strong></p>
<p>18 years ago Chance got a phone call for a consulting job for a superfund site in California.  From 1955 to 1971, 36 million gallons of toxic waste was dumped at Glen Avon.  Calculate how much material was released into the air and delivered to the people?</p>
<p>How did people get exposed?  Shape of the site?  Recreate what it must have been like.  The chlorinated hydrocarbons would evaporate then travel to the community.  The Urupa Mountains are a granitic upthrust with some schist, this is relatively uneroded.  The site was located at a canyon.</p>
<p>This used to be a very rural area.  The chamber of commerce wanted to promote development in the area.  Hydrocarbon wastes were becoming harder to dispose of legally.  They figured that charging people to accept this waste was a good way to make money.</p>
<p>A geologist, who was a student at the time, is given a 300 stipend to investigate the site, working for the people who wanted to dump the chemical.  He found that the granite would contain the fluid.  A dam is built as well.  The dam was 8 feet high, from 4&#8242; by 8&#8242; of plywood.  Hoop Gibson was the caretaker of the site, he live nearby.   Acids would be dumped, bases would be dumped.  Fires would start and be put out.</p>
<p>Pyrite creek leads to millions of people.  The periodic table was basically dumped at the site.  The solution had to be precipitated to remove metals, a carbon bed to absorb hydrocarbons, radioactive material.  Today they transport what&#8217;s left to a site in Idaho.  Sometimes, I&#8217;ve heard, they take it to Africa, Asia or dump it into the oceans. </p>
<p>Penny Newman was a teacher at a local school.  The water was contaminated with chromium 6 or Cr VI &#8211; that&#8217;s chromium with 6 valence electrons.  Developmental problems in chickens, brass fixtures eroding, other shiney metals would erode as well.</p>
<p>Hoop Gibson dies of cancer dies during the case.  A sprinkler system The boat on site would corrode and sink.  Purple pond, turned out to be DDT.</p>
<p>So we&#8217;ve got some ponds, with a flux of material coming out.  Find the material out since 1971.</p>
<p>n = K liquid (C gas/H &#8211; C liquid)</p>
<p>What is the composition of the pond?  K liquid is the liquid phase mass phase transportation constant.  C gas is the concentration of gas.  H is the Henry&#8217;s law constant.  Of course, you need to make it seem harder to the customers, you need to think about it for a few hours.</p>
<p>Highly volatile halogens have a K liquid of about 20.  Because of this, the resistance is in the liquid phase.  When a molecule reaches the surface of the liquid, it leaves and enters the gas phase.</p>
<p>Thus, he approximated n as K liquid.  The H&#8217; constants were all the same.</p>
<p>K liquid x C liquid = n = grams/second</p>
<p>rephrased, Area x K liquid x C liquid = n</p>
<p>1 acre x 20 cm/hour x 100 mg/Liter = n</p>
<p>They capped the site and put grazing sheep on top.  The sheep died.  So they poked the site to sample it.  Found 100 milligrams/Liter of pollution.  The solubility of this pollution was 1000 milligrams/Liter.  This is ten percent of the saturation value.</p>
<p>A planimeter was used to guess the area.  USGS or United States Geological Survey provided the map.  Flood control maps.  Find an aerial survey.</p>
<p>Called the coast guard to control the area.  25 ponds were counted.  Got scale from USGS maps.  He used an average of 1 acre for all 25 ponds.</p>
<p>On the stand, you are under oath.  The other lawyer isn&#8217;t and can lie as much as he likes.</p>
<p>The overall rate of evaporation and transport of the pollution was 781 tons/year  or 22.5 grams/second.</p>
<p>Kelly Fried Herring.  Are you a licensed photogramicist, Chance was asked?  USGS digitally found 1 acre too, so his answer was within one percent. </p>
<p>35 million tons dumped over 17 years.  10% VOCs was the class of hydrocarbons.</p>
<p>E = 35 x 10^6 tons x a density of 454 grams/lb x 10 lb/gallon x 0.1 = 29.6 grams/second</p>
<p>Assumes everything evaporates, in truth, perhaps 80% evaporated.</p>
<p>Mass transfer controlled in the liquid phase as the liquid temp doesn&#8217;t change from day to night.</p>
<p>Then an air model creator would predict the downstream concentrations.  Winds went upslope.  Ground cools, the air flow changed directions.</p>
<p>A friend tried to virtually &#8220;mill out&#8221; the topography and even things out.  Use a tracer gas like sulfur hexafluoride.  Model the  town.</p>
<p>Engineering is not that difficult.  Don&#8217;t be afraid to approximate.  Find the simplest way through it.  That&#8217;s the hallmark.</p>
<p><strong>Review</strong></p>
<p>Yagi Antenna – Unidirectional, high gain, 9.07 dBi, spacing, number of elements</p>
<p>E + S = ES = EP = E + P</p>
<p>A index: Long term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>Z index: Short term stability of the Earth’s geomagnetic field</p>
<p>V = IR</p>
<p>Re = pUH/u</p>
<p>2s 6p 10d 14f</p>
<p>Accumulation = Rate In – Rate Out</p>
<p>Germ layers: ectoderm/mesoderm/endoderm/neural crest</p>
<p>Extraembryological layers: Amnion, Yolk Sac, Allantois, Chorion</p>
<p>Types of tissue repair: fibrosis, regeneration</p>
<p>Levels of theory: atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population Muscle: skeletal, smooth, cardiac</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Fibrous eye layer: sclera, cornea</p>
<p>Vascular eye layer: pupil, iris, ciliary body, choroid</p>
<p>Sensory: retina</p>
<p>Interior layers of the eye: retina, choroid, sclera</p>
<p>Brain layers: DAP dia mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater</p>
<p>conjectiva – highly vascular, thin layer, mucus membrane</p>
<p>Edge of objects, light intensity and contrast are affected by horizonal and amacrine cells.</p>
<p>Fast pain from myleinated fibers, slow pain from unmylienated fibers</p>
<p>Cell to Cell Communication from short distance to longest: autocrine, juxtacrine, paracrine, endocrine.</p>
<p>Tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, nervous</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>K = products/reactants</p>
<p>Brain: diencephalon, brainstem, cerebrum, cerebellum</p>
<p>Merkel discs – pressure, light touch</p>
<p>Two cells that improve contrast, edges and light intensity are amacrine and horizontal cells.</p>
<p>Taste buds from cranial nerve 9, 10,7.</p>
<p>Layers of the spinal cord: DAPer Dura mater, Arachnoid mater, and Pia mater.</p>
<p>Brain Waves from fast to slow: alpha, beta, theta, delta</p>
<p>G = H-TS</p>
<p>Blood: RBCs, WBCs, plasma, platelets</p>
<p>K = Products/Reactants</p>
<p>G = -8T lnK</p>
<p>PV = nRT</p>
<p>Muscle: Smooth, Cardiac, Smooth</p>
<p>S P D F – 2s, 6p, 10d, 14f</p>
<p>Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER) makes proteins</p>
<p>Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (SER) makes lipids</p>
<p>Macromolecules: Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Proteins, Carbohydrates</p>
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